Episode 6: She Spat At Me
After a few teasing shots of Ellen standing over David’s dead body in the bath, we go back a few months and find Gregory Malina sitting on a bench when Ellen comes to sit next to him. She wants him to come forward and give evidence against Frobisher and gives him an ultimatium. She reports back to Patty Hewes and Tom Shayes and they agree to subpoena Gregory in 24 hours.
The “other side” also want to speak to Gregory and someone associated with Frobisher - we don’t yet know his name - is giving him instructions on what to do. Gregory tell him he wants his life back but is told “This is your life”, and “Anytime you get the urge to think for yourself… Resist it”.
Frobisher meets up with his lawyer, Ray Fiske. He tells him he was at his son’s basketball game and a woman spat at him. He decides he wants to publish his memoirs to show his positive side and counter any negative reporting on him. Frobisher is concerned about his legacy and doesn’t want to be remembered as a monster. When asked what he had in mind, Frobisher suggests “maybe a chapter on my dyslexia”.
David comes home planning a romantic gesture but Ellen isn’t home from work. He fixes his own dinner but is clearly annoyed. He calls Ellen and she wants him to come to dinner with Patty and her husband. He doesn’t want to go but she makes it clear she wants him there.
Later, David is eating a sandwich outside when the flirty girl - Lila - from a previous episode comes to speak to him. She tells him that her grandfather, who he treated, has died and she asks him to come around and look at medical equipment to see what it is and if they can sell it. A quick jump forward to the police investigating David’s death and they find that Lila called him 6 times the night before he died. When they go to talk to her, she tells them that they had been dating for 4 months and that Ellen couldn’t accept it. We flash back to when David goes to check her medical equipment and there seems to be a mutual attraction between them.
Ray Fiske is having a dream about a meeting with Frobisher where his tooth comes out and he has to retrieve it from his throat.David and Ellen go to dinner at Patty’s. David is clearly uncomfortable in Patty’s company with her dog staring at him. David doesn’t make much of an effort and is keen to leave early, especially when Patty tries to talk about David’s sister, Katie. After they leave. Ellen and David are arguing about his behaviour when she gets a call from Greg Malina - he is willing to come forward.
Frobisher meets with his new biographer, George. George wants to ask about the accounting irregularities that led to the trial but Frobisher suggests they concentrate who who he is, and his family life, asking him “are you familiar with dyslexia?”
Ellen meets up with Gregory. He begins to open up. She wants to know who Frobisher met on the crucial weekend in Florida. He tells her “Forget about the broker. It’s not about the broker. It’s more….” A menacing bald guy is watching them and Gregory is spooked so he leaves.Ellen reports his words to Patty and they decide they now have to subpoena him.
Frobisher turns up at his biographer’s apartment after midnight with his childhood memories. He wants to talk about when he was young, telling him he was a spelling bee.
George doesn’t want to discuss the biography at this time of night and with his girlfriend there. Frobisher asks him about the novel he’s writing and then tell hims “That sounds like a crap….Course you’re writing about my life cos you don’t have one.” After a bad tempered scuffle, Frobisher goes home and begins writing his own own autobiography. Police turn up. Bad publicity.
Patty gives Ellen some relationship advice, telling her she dumped her first boyfriend because his lack of ambition disgusted her. “A man should want to feel like he is charge. The trick is, making him feel like he actually is”.
David calls Lila to ask if he left his keys there. She said she’ll look for them, but it turns out she took them out of his coat pocket when he visited and she has them. We also discover that her grandfather isn’t dead at all, so she has been lying to David.Fiske continues to dream about his teeth falling out. His sleep therapist tells him this is common and signifies he is holding on to a secret.
The menacing bald guy from earlier is preparing a gun as Gregory drinks in a bar. The guy has the gun in his holster and follows Gregory in the shadows as he leaves the bar. It seems as if he is about to shoot Gregory when he bumps into the blonde girl he met in the last episode. The guy following him draws his gun and shoots her. Gregory runs off but it transpires the girl had a gun and maybe the bald menacing guy was actually protecting Gregory after all and is working for Patty.
Gregory is scared so runs to Ray Fiske’s home. Ray doesn’t want to let him in but Greg is frantic and places his hand on Rays which hints at a closeness between them which we didn’t know about and maybe gives us a clue as to the secret which is Ray Fiske is keeping, and causing his sleep problems.
David comes home to find the door open and someone in the bath. Will it be Lila? Will it be Ellen? It turns out to be Ellen but Lila is in fact lurking in the flat as David joins Ellen in the bath. We cut to the police talking to Lila and she shows them the keys she has and says David gave them to her and they were making plans for him to leave Ellen.
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